Nationwide — The Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship provides financial support to high school students as well as undergraduate students entering college for the first time. The purpose of the scholarship is to help under-served students who […]
The Founder’s Library by Todd Johnson (NBC NEWS) Six Howard University employees were fired last year for “gross misconduct and neglect of duties” following an independent auditor’s investigation into misappropriation of financial aid funds, according […]
Alfred Rankins, Jr. (Mississippi.edu) By Robin White Goode, blackenterprise.com Last week it was announced that Mississippi’s Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning named an African American to the position of state’s commissioner […]
The 100 Black Men of Jacksonville, Inc. and Teen Leaders of America, Inc. recently sponsored their annual spring college tour dubbed the “Georgia on My Mind Spring College Tour.” The three-day college tour took 46 […]
Tiger Academy, the First Coast YMCA’s charter school, recently accepted a $102K check from Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) to sponsor the incoming class of Tiger Academy students for all six years through the RYAM […]
By Britni Danielle, essence.com Students at Hampton University, one of the nation’s oldest and most storied Historically Black institutions, are demanding changes at the 150 year old university. In the wake of a tense Feb. […]
By Sarafina Wright, Washington Informer American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles recently began her new journey as a college student at the University of the People and she wants to help other foster […]
Mary Jackson, NASA’s first black female engineer(Photo: NASA Langley Research Center) by Marina Koren via theatlantic.com An elementary school in Utah has traded one Jackson for another in a change that many say was a […]
by Tiffany Pennamon The vital role and relevance of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has been contested in contemporary times. Until recently, no central text or film documented the history of these institutions as […]
They often receive inequitable state and federal funding and are often under-resourced and under-supported. Despite their uphill battle, new research details that historically Black colleges and universities have had a positive economic impact on the […]
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